Comatose patients often have a questionable prognosis. Family and doctors are left to ask, what are the chances a loved one ...

With commercial EEG hardware, [Michael] is able to communicate ... he’s busy writing an algorithm that will detect REM sleep and play an audio track while he’s in a dream state to trigger ...

Researchers found that sleep spindles, brief bursts of brain activity, may predict recovery in unresponsive brain injury ...

Sleep has different stages. If you do an EEG of a person, there are four stages of sleep and then there is a separate sleep called REM sleep, rapid eye movement sleep. And the dreaming happens in ...

Delayed REM sleep may be a potential indication of early ... But wearable devices like smartwatches and EEG headsets (devices for measuring brain activity) can estimate the timing and length ...

If I were looking at you in a sleep lab, I could actually look at your EEG recordings and I could look at how much stage three, four and REM sleep you get because that really is the determinant of ...

Using EEG and EMG recordings to monitor brain activity ... Mice with more frequent micro-arousals during non-REM sleep exhibited greater glymphatic clearance of tracer molecules.

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may possess a degree of consciousness that's normally hidden from their ...

Met-Met patients demonstrate a different sleep pattern than Met-Val patients, including severe fragmentation, brief but repeated episodes of sudden-onset REM (with oneiric enactment), and an ...